Its a very humbling experience. PhD and nearly 20 years of experience and can still be tossed aside without even batting an eye. People really need to treat other people better.
That sux. There's a trickle down effect. Tariffs and the lack of an FY26 budget appropriations in the sciences (NSF, NIH, etc) are a crusher. Did the start-up use SBIR funding (Fed business grants)?
Nope. Leftover funds from split with NASA finally running dry. Burning a little over a million a month and piggy bank will be empty by mid 2026.
CEO has an ego the size of Texas and has no idea how industry really does business. At least once a week I've seen him call an industry expert a moron (or worse) because they didnt agree with him.
Has no product ready for actual launch, but everybody else's products suck for one reason or another, etc...
Yeah, we're having trouble re: NASA but for a different reason. Our grants are drying up because of budget cuts, but I do have products and publications. Our TAMU administration is giving an concerted effort to keep NASA investigators on campus prepped if the spigot turns on again. We looking for foundation and private sources of funding. It's tricky.
Today or really tomorrow begins a very slow cooldown over the next week to seasonable temps. Rain chances are highest tomorrow and Monday, but the overall rain event chances have been sagging. We'll get some. Our grass is turning brown anyway. the trees are OK. The rain we needed would have been September and October...except we had more summer instead, with the except of a handful of days.
Our local mets in Austin are full of it. Many forecasted for floods, then it turned into 1-2 inches of widespread rains forecast. Most of the area didnt even get a 0.5 inch, and many got absolutely nothing.
Brazoriatx979 the bigger push of arctic air doesnt come until early december, that has always been consistent in ensembles/ some globals, the front on thanksgiving is more of a modified canadian front, we still are 6 days out, but they will adjust those numbers down lol
Nothing has really changed except less rain in SETX today, which is no surprise. Glad to see drought-stricken areas get some needed rain (Hill Country, West-Central Texas).
Slow cooldown over the next 5 days to seasonable temps. - sure as hell beats that last 5-6 days!
The December FROPA is far more exciting on the EURO-AIFS than GFS or the Ensembles. We'll see.
DoctorMu wrote: ↑Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:51 am
Nothing has really changed except less rain in SETX today, which is no surprise. Glad to see drought-stricken areas get some needed rain (Hill Country, West-Central Texas).
Slow cooldown over the next 5 days to seasonable temps. - sure as hell beats that last 5-6 days!
The December FROPA is far more exciting on the EURO-AIFS than GFS or the Ensembles. We'll see.
I’m sure you know by now the GFS is basically useless at seeing cold air more than 10 days out. The Euro isn’t even that good past 10 days at seeing cold. Remember it completely busted on the Feb 2021 event.
I know anything with regards to precip could be difficult considering it is hard to get any widespread rain currently. It was supposed to pour yesterday and nothing!
DoctorMu wrote: ↑Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:51 am
Nothing has really changed except less rain in SETX today, which is no surprise. Glad to see drought-stricken areas get some needed rain (Hill Country, West-Central Texas).
Slow cooldown over the next 5 days to seasonable temps. - sure as hell beats that last 5-6 days!
The December FROPA is far more exciting on the EURO-AIFS than GFS or the Ensembles. We'll see.
I’m sure you know by now the GFS is basically useless at seeing cold air more than 10 days out. The Euro isn’t even that good past 10 days at seeing cold. Remember it completely busted on the Feb 2021 event.
TexasBreeze wrote: ↑Fri Nov 21, 2025 12:57 pm
I know anything with regards to precip could be difficult considering it is hard to get any widespread rain currently. It was supposed to pour yesterday and nothing!
